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Taxes, Charity, and Hedge Funds: Tax Implications of Charitable Contributions of Leveraged Partnership Interests

January 10, 2022 - Nathan Sosner Roxana Steblea-Lora

As a result of recent Treasury regulations, investors in investment partnerships, such as hedge funds, might end up recognizing capital gains when they contribute their partnership interests to a charity. We explain how such taxable gains upon charitable contributions arise and quantify how punitive they might be.

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The Tax Benefits of Direct Indexing: Not a One-Size-Fits-All Formula

May 7, 2021 - Nathan Sosner Stanley Krasner Michael Gromis

An investor holding a direct indexing portfolio can obtain tax benefits by harvesting losses on individual stock positions. We show that investors with allocations to hedge funds and derivatives are the most likely category of investors to have systematic short-term capital gains in their portfolios and, therefore, benefit the most from losses harvested by direct-indexing strategies. We show how tax benefits are affected by equalizing the tax rate applicable to long-term and short-term capital gains.

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Limitation on Trader Fund Losses under the CARES Act of 2020

March 3, 2021 - Nathan Sosner Roxana Steblea-Lora

We explain how hedge fund investors might be affected by a limitation on excess business losses codified in recent tax legislation. In order to allocate business losses a hedge fund now must be a trader fund. After explaining the relationship between hedge fund losses and business losses, we illustrate with simple examples how the new provisions may affect hedge fund investors.

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Integration of Income and Estate Tax Planning

September 1, 2020 - Nathan Sosner Joseph Liberman Steven Liu

Preservation and transfer of wealth to future generations is one of the central financial goals for most high-net-worth families. We show that a family that invests with income and estate tax efficiency in mind can achieve substantially higher wealth levels than a family oblivious to taxes.

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Tax-Efficient Portfolio Transition: A Tax-Aware Relaxed-Constraint Approach to Switching Equity Managers

March 2, 2020 - Nathan Sosner Stanley Krasner

For a taxable investor with a highly appreciated equity portfolio, replacing the portfolio manager is likely to trigger substantial tax liabilities. We find that a tax-aware relaxed-constraint post-transition strategy significantly outperforms a traditional tax-agnostic long-only strategy in its ability to preserve and grow the investors after-tax wealth over the long term.

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Lot Layering: The New Frontier for Hedge Fund Partnership Allocations

October 11, 2019 - Nathan Sosner Philip Balzafiore

Despite its unavoidable deficiency caused by current regulations, we believe that lot layering aligns tax and economics more closely than any of the “aggregation” methods presently used by most hedge funds.

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Partnership Allocations and Their Effects on Tax-Aware Fund Investors

May 1, 2018 - Nathan Sosner Philip Balzafiore Zhenduo Du

We discuss certain accounting principles relevant for investors in tax-aware funds structured as limited partnerships. We present a simple stylized model that illustrates that under such accounting principles new investors do not materially suffer from unrealized gains accumulated in a tax-aware fund.

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Style Investing and Tax Efficiency: Building a More Tax Efficient Global Equity Portfolio for Australian Investors

May 1, 2018 - Jeff Dunn Tristen Huupponen Stanley Krasner Nathan Sosner

We evaluate the performance of long-only style-based equity strategies after accounting for taxes. We and find that style investing can be efficiently implemented in a tax-aware manner for Australian investors.

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